Captain Conor Kearns has announced the team to take on the Collegiate All American XV at Talen Energy Stadium, Philadelphia on Saturday afternoon, KO 1415 (local time) in the second match of the Men’s Blues US Tour. He has been able to include eight Blues in the starting XV and a further two on the bench, as the squad look to build on their successful start to the 2017 Varsity Campaign.

The match will be shown live via the Rugby Channel http:/www.therugbychannel.tv/# with highlights shown later on NBC. The match is the curtain raiser to the Premiership match between Newcastle Falcons and Saracens.

For ticket information, please email tim.stevens@sport.ox.ac.uk

1 Lewis Anderson * (Trinity) 2 Ed Elvin (St Hugh’s) 3 Kieran Ball * (Trinity) 4 Lisiate Fifita (St Edmund Hall) 5 Hugo McPherson (Lady Margaret Hall) 6 Andy Saull (Kellogg) 7 Will Thornton * (Lady Margaret Hall) 8 Will Wilson * (Keble) 9 Sam Edgerley (St Catherine’s) 10 Conor Kearns * (Jesus) Captain 11 Dan Moor # (Christ Church) 12 Alex Hogg * (Keble) 13 Dan Barley (St Edmund Hall) 14 Tom Stileman * (St Peter’s) 15 Tom Hammond * (Kellogg)

Replacements:
16 John Aaron Henry (Somerville) 17 Noah Miller (St Peter’s) 18 Michael Gorry (Jesus) 19 Charlie Pozniak (St Benet’s Hall) 20 James Beaufils * (Exeter) 21 Tom Kershaw * (Worcester) 22 Thom Foster (Keble)
* Denotes Blue, # denotes International